· Public charity
Texas Sandfest
Is an organization that supports relief of the poor, support education,and awards scholarships to local high school seniors
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $442,919 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $469,769 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,850 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORT ARANSAS ISD | $280,419 |
| THE HELPING HAND FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| VFW POST 8967 | $25,000 |
| TRINITY BY THE SEA CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BACA TEXAS INC | $20,000 |
| YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PORT ARANSAS POLICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PA PRESERVATION & HISTORICAL ASSOC | $10,000 |
| PORT ARANSAS EMS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ARK | $10,000 |
| PORT ARANSAS FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| KEEP PORT ARANSAS BEAUTIFUL | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -26% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- VOVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF TEXAS6× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +74% · 68% of their budget
- PAPORT ARANSAS ART CENTER4× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +76%
- PAPort Aransas Preservation and Historical Association5× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- PAPORT ARANSAS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $62k
- AFANIMAL FRIENDS OF PORT ARANSAS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -26% · 66% of their budget
- THTHE HELPING HAND FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2017 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To preserve the historical heritage of the city of port arthur, texas. the society operates the museum of the gulf coast and maintains an historical property: the pompeiian villa.
The core purpose of this organization is to drive a better quality of life for the residents and community of port aransas.
We support our community by advocating for sensible development and leading the marketing of port aransas & mustang island
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Provide funding for the very best care to the many homeless animals that come to our local shelters. this includes medical procedures due to injuries, illness, heartworm treatments, foster support, and more.
Foster a balance of conservation and economically sustainable uses for port aransas while recognizing dependence of community and economy on tourism
Providing support and access for uninsured and under-insured Texas amputees to obtain quality prosthetics with comprehensive aftercare, as well as to generate public awareness for these individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Port Aransas Community Theatre and the most unlike its peers is New Life Refuge Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association ↗
- Who funds Friends of the ARK Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS OF PORT ARANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Development Foundation of Port Aransas ↗
- Who funds PORT ARANSAS GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE REFUGE MINISTRIES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Mary Hobbs Griffith Foundation · Ed Rachal Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Texas Sandfest funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.